#SMSociety15 - Social Media & Society Conference Updates: Table of Content 1) Keynote – Dr. William H. Dutton 2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals – Due February 2 3) Call for Submissions 4) Conference Publishing Opportunities 5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016? *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *1) Keynote – Dr. William H. Dutton* We are very excited to announce our keynote for #SMSociety15 – Dr. Bill Dutton, the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is the Director of the Quello Center! He was the Founding Director of Oxford Internet Institute and the first Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford. *2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals – Due February 2* Do you work with social media data? We invite you to submit a proposal for a half-day Workshop or Tutorial on July 27, 2015 that examines a particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data. See more info at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483 ** Workshop/tutorial hosts will receive a complimentary conference registration.* *3) Call for Submissions – Various Due Dates* We welcome various submission types: Short Papers, Work-in-Progress Papers, Posters, and Panels. See more info at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483 *4) Conference Publishing Opportunities* • All accepted short papers will be published in the ACM Proceedings http://dl.acm.org/ • Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full papers to a special issue of *Information, Communication & Society* published by Taylor & Francis http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rics20 • Authors of accepted short and WIP papers will be invited to submit their full papers to a special theme issue of *Big Data & Society* published by SAGE (open access). http://bds.sagepub.com/ *5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016? * If you are interested in hosting the conference in 2016, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd to discuss: gruzd@ryerson.ca For more information about the Social Media & Society Conference and the CfP: https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1315 And follow us on Twitter @socmediasoc We look forward to seeing you in Toronto, *The Conference Organizing Committee* Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University @gruzd Barry Wellman, University of Toronto @barrywellman Philip H. Mai, Ryerson University @phmai Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto @jacobsonjenna